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Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private — Dell announced Tuesday that it had agreed to go private in a $24 billion deal led by its founder and the investment firm Silver Lake, in the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis. — Under the terms of the deal, the buyers' consortium …

HP Issues Statement on Dell's Leveraged Buyout Plan — HP today issued the following statement related to Dell's announcement to enter into an agreement to be acquired by Michael Dell and Silver Lake: “Dell has a very tough road ahead. The company faces an extended period of uncertainty …

Microsoft Statement on Loan to Support Dell Privatization — “Microsoft has provided a $2 billion loan to the group that has proposed to take Dell private. Microsoft is committed to the long term success of the entire PC ecosystem and invests heavily in a variety of ways to build that ecosystem for the future.

Introducing Your Instagram Feed on the Web — Today, I'm very excited to announce the launch of a product we've been wanting to build for quite some time now. Since our launch in October of 2010, we've focused on building a simple app that has inspired creativity while capturing everyday moments through the lens of your mobile phone.

About.me Buys Itself Back From AOL — Here's your next challenge as a founder of a start-up: Sell your company to a digital behemoth for tens of millions of dollars, then buy it back for a fraction of the cost. Oh, and keep the change. — On Monday, About.me, an online identity Web site …

Growing Numbers of Start-Ups Are Worth a Billion Dollars — SAN FRANCISCO — The number of privately held Silicon Valley start-ups that are worth more than $1 billion shocks even the executives running those companies. — “I thought we were special,” said Phil Libin, chief executive of Evernote …

BlackBerry Z10 “Off to a Better Start Than Lumia 920” — More preliminary evidence that the new BlackBerry Z10 is off to a better start than some had foreseen: A pair of research notes lending further credence to early reports of strong demand for BlackBerry's first BlackBerry 10 handset.

The Threat of Silence — Meet the groundbreaking new encryption app set to revolutionize privacy and freak out the feds. — For the past few months, some of the world's leading cryptographers have been keeping a closely guarded secret about a pioneering new invention. Today, they've decided it's time to tell all.

HTC M7 to ditch megapixels in favour of Ultrapixels — HTC is to use a new camera sensor on its much-rumoured HTC M7?smartphone, Pocket-lint can confirm, which will use what the company calls Ultrapixels. — Although rumours have suggested the new smartphone will use a 13-megapixel sensor …

Why Twitter Is Buying Bluefin — And Why Bluefin Is Selling — As Business Insider reported, Twitter is buying Bluefin Labs, the social analytics company. — My understanding is that the deal isn't done yet, but it will be soon. When it is, Twitter will likely end up spending more than $70 million for the company.

Facebook Is Said to Create Mobile Location-Tracking App — Facebook Inc. (FB) is developing a smartphone application that will track the location of users, two people with knowledge of the matter said, bolstering efforts to benefit from growing use of social media on mobile computers.